Support for Android API 8

[vovkab]

Hi

I'm having an issues with latest jackson. It crashes on android api8 because it doesn't have Arrays.copyOf().

The easiest fix would be just to replace all calls to Arrays.copyOf() with System.arraycopy()

Gradle config:
compile 'com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-core:2.3.0'
compile 'com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-databind:2.3.0'
compile 'com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-annotations:2.3.0'

Crash:
java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: java.util.Arrays.copyOf
at com.fasterxml.jackson.core.sym.CharsToNameCanonicalizer.copyArrays(CharsToNameCanonicalizer.java:579)
at com.fasterxml.jackson.core.sym.CharsToNameCanonicalizer.findSymbol(CharsToNameCanonicalizer.java:494)
at com.fasterxml.jackson.core.json.ReaderBasedJsonParser.parseName(ReaderBasedJsonParser.java:1210)
at com.fasterxml.jackson.core.json.ReaderBasedJsonParser.nextToken(ReaderBasedJsonParser.java:612)
at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.deser.BeanDeserializer.deserialize(BeanDeserializer.java:118)
at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper.readMapAndClose(ObjectMapper.java:2986)
at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper.readValue(ObjectMapper.java:2091)

Thanks!

[cowtowncoder]

Version 2.3.2 will add a temporary backport of functionality, so that will work on old(er) Android versions.

Not that support will be dropped from 2.4, as per discussions on dev mailing list. But for 2.3.x we can go back, just to give developers bit more time & known working version (so that patch releases can be made for 2.3.x for critical issues).

[cowtowncoder]

Issue relevant here is #126 so closing this one.